Wheat Harvest in Chitral

Growing wheat has remained very old in Chitral. I could not find any written record of wheat growing in District Chitral. So through the oral history, before the modern agriculture, there were some local varieties of wheat known as "TUFF" and the other was...... People were growing it using manure and some compost. After the arrival of British it little improved because the British army started buying access wheat. It increased the people's interest in growing wheat. People of Chitral were cutting the wheat by sickle. After cutting it binding sheaves was compulsory. To seperate the grain it was common to use cows and some other animals. After spreading the sheaves on a leveled field, a rope tied to the horn or around the head of five to seven animals in a row. The first cow was called 'MARE' in local language. Then a man walk the animals in a circle till the grain separate. After it winnowing was common. For winnowing people used a wooden shavel like tool. By observing wind direction winnowing was performed.